09/02/2017 (Agence Europe) – According to the EFE press agency, the UN Special Envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, made an on appeal on Wednesday the 8 February for Europeans to reopen their embassies in Tripoli. He informed EFE that “I want to encourage you to go to Tripoli because this sends out an important signal to people that you are thinking about them”. According to the Special Envoy, it is impossible to request help for reconstructing and regenerating the country from abroad, without having a physical presence on the ground. He added that “There are no European expatriates or civilian humanitarian workers in Libya at all. The EU should open its embassies, as Italy and Turkey have done and as we are going to do”. Mr Kobler did not deny any of the security problems in Libya but said that they were not as “dramatic” as certain people think. In reply to EUROPE, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service, asserted that the EU was ready to return to Tripoli “as soon as security conditions allow” (see EUROPE 11134). (CG)